Cheshire-Nantwich-1794 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

15322

Map Date:

1794

Repository reference:

Cheshire RO LUN 4639/1

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Nantwich

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ652523

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 6850

Comments on map:

Made 'by Order of a Committee appointed Septr. 30th. 1792 for equalising a Poor's Rate within the said township'. Built-up part not mapped in much detail, and no cadastral information for that part.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Jos. Fenna [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

92 x 100

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Cheshire RO LUN 4639/1 [original]; Cheshire RO DDX 330 [photo].

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Title surrounded by trees, with, in foreground, a woman with laurel in her hair, sitting on wheatsheafs, looking at a naked child bringing another wheatsheaf and laying it at her feet, with town (presumably Nantwich) in background.

Commons:

shown

Symbolic elements:

Trees, town view, woman, laurels, child, wheatsheaves: in cartouche.

Map material:

parchment

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560